Trending News: Fossils offer a glimpse into Earth's ancient life, revealing the origins and evolution of complex organisms. Discoveries like Dickinsonia and Kimberel ...

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. Proteins, a cell's molecular machinery ...

Students who signed up for Geology 461/661, a paleobiology class, got much more than they bargained for when they took a field trip to Carlin, Nevada, about 30 minutes west of Elko. “When Dr. Noble ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of the early universe that has escaped normal evolution.

Marine brachiopod fossils found among Roman artifacts on Morocco’s Mogador Island predate the island itself and may have ended up there via ancient trade networks.

Scientists in America have unearthed fossils from a number of animals, many of them previously unknown, dating back to the dinosaur era. The newly-found fossils, including those from a pterosaur ...

Dinosaur fossils unearthed in Mongolia half a century ago belong to a newly identified species that evolved into the massive flesh-eating tyrannosaurs that dominated the planet for millions of ...

The UN’s conversation starter on fossil fuelsFossil fuels, and the myriad of products derived from them, are in many ways the foundation of modern civilization. Not only do we depend on them for our ...

Cold weather and weak wind power in early 2025 drove the biggest jump in EU fossil fuel electricity generation since 2017, pushing emissions higher.

Scientists have now extracted and sequenced proteins from dental fossils of extinct rhinoceroses, elephants and hippopotamuses, including from a rhino tooth 21-24 million years old.